The author used a turn of phrase here which might be slightly confusing: 打湿. Most commonly, we know the word 打 dǎ as “to hit” or “to strike”. 湿 shī means “wet” or “moist”. Put these two words together, and 打湿 means “to get something wet” or to moisten.

Though the title of the poem is “Dewdrops” – 露珠 – you’ll notice that the actual word is never mentioned in the poem.

Last night,
Who walked up from the meadow?
[They] lost so many pearls.
This morning,
Who was watching me from the underbrush?
[They] made damp my trousers.
The sun is high,
who left with the pearls?
[They] left behind them dewy breath,
and wet soil.

I think, from my understanding of Hanyu, 了 (le) signifies a completed action thus “太阳升高了” means the sun is risen, so it is high. “Is taking” would also be incorrect as that would require an indication of something taking place, not 了.

This poem is better than my name’s poem! Poen agowem is my name. Agowem, I mea. But I don’t understand what Dewdropss has to do with the dewy breath or the pearls things. Is the pearl things the dewdrops? OOH! Understand now.

I know basically no signs, but this poem and the whole explanations make me actually train those I know and learn to recognise more signs because there’s a motivation to it! Love the text, and it’s really great!